[G4] Upgrades and Updates

[Alex]

On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 14:20 Canada/Eastern, Dennis B. Swaney 
wrote:

> At 10:35 -0400 5/24/04, Alex wrote:
>> On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 08:21 Canada/Eastern, Anne Keller-Smith 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  [...] Questions - [...]
>>
>> They are all separate questions, and it's more likely you'll receive 
>> useful info by asking them separately. It'd also be more suitable for 
>> the discussion list format.
>
> Get off your high horse, Alex.

For those who need to have things spelled out in detail--

(1) Most people have lives and professions; they contribute to 
discussion lists as a hobby. They don't have the time to read or write 
long messages, involving several issues not necessarily closely 
related. A concise message, dealing with one question, is significantly 
more likely to be read and answered (especially by someone who knows 
what he's talking about) than a long one containing many questions.

(2) Currently, the only content descriptor for an e-mail message is the 
subject line. The subject line of a message containing many different 
questions has to be less specific in order to cover all questions, and 
that makes it inefficient as a content descriptor. In other words, it 
doesn't fit the format well, and makes retrieval of information more 
difficult -- for everybody, yourself included.

You can take this as friendly advice that will help you to use this 
resource -- the discussion list -- more efficiently. Or you can take it 
as arrogant posturing. Guess which is going to be of more benefit to 
yourself.

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